Archive for January, 2012

The HSUS put a spotlight on gestation crates today by releasing the details of undercover investigations we recently conducted at Oklahoma pig breeding facilities owned by two of the nation’s largest pork producers: Seaboard Foods and Prestage Farms.

You had a lot to say about last week’s rescue of 11 large exotics from a squalid zoo in Mississippi, and my review of new movie “The Grey.” Take a look at our new video of the rescue as well as some of your comments.

Last night, National Public Radio aired a story about the unusual agreement between The HSUS and the United Egg Producers to support new legislation to improve the lives of laying hens. Yet the American Farm Bureau and the National Pork Producers Council are essentially saying they know more about egg production than egg producers.

New film “The Grey” revolves around a pack of wolves hunting stranded people. Demonizing and misrepresenting animals can have destructive consequences―especially when renewed persecution of wolves in the United States places the lives of these creatures at more at risk than ever.

This week, we released our third annual “Humane State Ranking,” evaluating all 50 states and the District of Columbia on their animal welfare policies. You can see where your state rated on our interactive map.

So far this year, big agribusiness interests are pushing for the enactment of bills in Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and New York to ban undercover anti-cruelty investigations on factory farms.

Today’s announcement by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to ban the import and trade in Burmese pythons, yellow anacondas, and northern and southern African pythons is an important advance for animal welfare, conservation, and public safety. But it excluded five species from the import restrictions.

With three years completed in his term, President Barack Obama is moving decidedly in the wrong direction on animal welfare issues, earning a grade of “C-minus” for 2011 according to a Report Card produced by The Humane Society of the United States.

I wrote last week about the growing momentum to end the Canadian seal slaughter, and it’s no surprise that there’s so much passion on this issue among our supporters. Today I’m sharing some of your comments.

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